The Most Influential Schools in the World
Find the most influential colleges and universities in the world in nearly 25 academic disciplines
Find brilliant thinkers for your research papers and bibliographies. Using our proprietary AI program, we have ranked everyone in Wikipedia, Wikidata, Schematic Scholar, and CrossRef based on the number of citations, publications, and academically relevant web presence. This is how we find the most influential people in the world.
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National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Ahmedabad is an Indian public Pharmacy research university, and a part of the seven schools, under India's Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers. The institute offers Masters and Doctoral degrees in pharmaceutical sciences. As an Institute of National Importance it plays an important role in the Human Resource Development for the ever growing Indian Pharmaceutical industry, which has been in the forefront of India’s science-based industries with wide ranging capabilities in this important field of drug manufacture.
Aishwarya College of Education is a college in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. It is located in Kamla Nehru Nagar, Jodhpur. It is affiliated to Jai Narain Vyas University and Rajasthan Technical University. It was established in 1999.
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Codrington College
Codrington College is an Anglican theological college in St. John, Barbados now affiliated with the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill. It is one of the oldest Anglican theological colleges in the Americas. It was affiliated to the University of Durham from 1875 to 1965.
The Delta State University, Abraka - popularly known as DELSU - is a State government-owned university in Nigeria with the main campus located at Abraka, Delta State and it's sub campus at Oleh. The Oleh campus was established with the 1995 Amended Edict. The university is a multiple-campus university having two campuses within a distance of about 52 km apart. Currently, with a student population of about 22,000 , the university offers a range of programmes from the full-time certificate, diploma and degree programmes to part-time evening and weekend degree programmes. DELSU offers postgraduate studies up to a doctoral level.
Australian Lutheran College , formerly Luther Seminary and Lutheran Teachers College, is a higher education institution serving the Lutheran Church of Australia and a registered teaching institution of University of Divinity. and the Adelaide College of Divinity.
The University of St. Francis is a private Franciscan university with its main campus in Joliet, Illinois. It enrolls more than 3,200 students at locations throughout the country with about 1,300 students at its main campus.
The Irish Baptist College is a Baptist theological college in Moira, Craigavon, Northern Ireland. It is affiliated with the Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland. It is part of the Baptist Theological Centre which is located in the Baptist Centre and is shared with ABC. IBC is accredited and reached Premier College Status by the Accreditation Service for International Colleges . The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education of England and Wales, review the IBC for quality and standards.
The Belfast Bible College is a private theological and Christian training college situated on the outskirts of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The college offers courses in Theology, delivered in partnership with the University of Cumbria.
Edgehill Theological College is the training institution for ministry in the Methodist Church in Ireland. It was founded in 1926 out of the Theology Department of Methodist College Belfast. Edgehill is an affiliate college of the Queen's University Belfast, and offers students registered with QUB - Institute of Theology, study at postgraduate level. Edgehill sponsors candidates to study on the Distance Learning, Foundation Degree in Theology for Ministry, BA in Theology for Ministry or Professional Certificate in Ministry through St John's College, Nottingham validated by the University of Ch...
Onomichi City University is a municipal university in Japan. It is located in Hisayamada-cho, Onomichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture. History The university was founded in 1946 as Onomichi Municipal Women's College, a three-year college for ages 17–20 or above. In 1950 the school was developed into Onomichi Junior College, a co-educational college, under Japan's new educational system.
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Busitema University
Busitema University is a university in Uganda. It is one of the eight public universities and degree-awarding institutions in the country. BU has its main focus on the instruction of agricultural sciences, agricultural mechanization, and agribusiness.
Rose State College is a public community college in Midwest City, Oklahoma. History Rose State College was originally named Oscar Rose Junior College in memory of Oscar V. Rose, a former Mid-Del School District school superintendent.
The National School of Sciences formerly known as the National Institute of Science and Technology , was established in 1993. It is located in Lainchour, Kathmandu, Nepal. The patron of the institute is Madhav Prasad Baral, who is also the academic in charge and similarly vice principal is Pranita Sharma Baral.The school offers science and management courses, primarily focusing on science. The institute is a part of a larger NIST Foundation which has multiple other branches which offer education from the secondary level up to the graduate levels.
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Machakos University
Machakos University is a public university in Machakos, Kenya. Founded in 1957 as a Technical Rural Training School by the colonial government, it was later renamed Machakos Technical and Trade School in 1958, Machakos Technical School in 1967, and Machakos Technical Training Institute in 1987. In 2011, the institution was upgraded to Machakos University College through Legal Notice No. 130, and it was chartered as a fully-fledged public university on October 7, 2016. Today, the university is located one kilometer from Machakos City along Machakos/Wote Road.
SS. Cyril and Methodius Seminary is a four-year private Polish seminary in Orchard Lake, Michigan, United States. The seminary, taking its name from Saints Cyril and Methodius, was founded in 1885 in Detroit, Michigan, to prepare candidates for the Roman Catholic priesthood primarily to serve Polish American immigrant communities.
Eden Theological Seminary is a seminary of the United Church of Christ in Webster Groves, Missouri, near St. Louis, Missouri. The seminary was established in 1850 by German pastors in what was then the American frontier. The pastors soon formed the German Evangelical Synod of North America. This, after subsequent mergers, became a part of the UCC. One of the early campuses in St. Louis became Normandy High School. The school was augmented by a merger with the Central Theological Seminary, an institution of the Reformed Church in the United States in Dayton, Ohio, in the 1930s, concurrent with ...
Lebanese International University is a university located in Nouakchott, Mauritania. It is part of the private Lebanese International University group. External links
The University of Nouakchott Al Aasriya is a university in the city of Nouakchott, capital of Mauritania. History The university was created in July 2016 from the merger of the University of Science, Technology and Medicine and the University of Nouakchott, that was established in 1981 and has more than 12,000 students.
Cardiff School of Law and Politics is part of Cardiff University in Cardiff, Wales. It confers LLB and LLM degrees for British and international students. Background In 1963, the Law Building opened, facing onto Museum Avenue and Park Place in Cardiff. The law school attracts students from all over the world. It provides a range of undergraduate law courses, all of which enable students to complete the foundation modules that constitute the academic stage of training necessary to become a solicitor or barrister. It also offers postgraduate LLM courses, criminal law courses and research degr...
Ontario Tech University , also known as Ontario Tech, is a public research university located in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The university's main campus is located on approximately of land in northern Oshawa, while its secondary satellite campus is situated in downtown Oshawa. The university is a co-educational institution that operates seven academic faculties.
The College of Coastal Georgia is a public college in Brunswick, Georgia. It was established in 1961 and opened in 1964, making it one of Georgia's newest state colleges. The college transitioned from a community college into a four-year college and conferred its first baccalaureate degrees on May 7, 2011.
Iḷisaġvik College is a public tribal land-grant community college in Utqiaġvik , Alaska. Operated by the North Slope Borough, a home rule government of the Iñupiat, it is the only tribally controlled college in Alaska, and it is the northernmost accredited community college in the United States. The college is located within the boundaries of the North Slope. It is an region of Arctic tundra. It is connected to the Dalton Highway only during the winter, by an ice road for local residents. The community can also be reached by plane.
Central Electro Chemical Research Institute is one of a chain of forty national laboratories under the aegis of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in New Delhi. Founded on 25 July 1948 at Karaikudi in Tamil Nadu, CECRI came into existence in January 1953.
Mapúa Malayan Colleges Laguna , formerly known as Malayan Colleges Laguna , is a private, research, and nonsectarian university wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mapúa University along Pulo–Diezmo Road in Barangay Diezmo, Cabuyao, Laguna. It was opened on June 18, 2006. MCL is close to the industrial hub of Laguna, giving students easy access to on-the-job training opportunities in prestigious companies.
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Galen University
Galen University is an independent university in Belize, Central America, with sustainable development as one of its core values. Its main campus is in Central Farm at mile 64 George Price Highway, in the Cayo District. The university is chartered and recognized by the Ministry of Education of the Government of Belize to offer degrees at undergraduate and graduate levels in educational programs such as business, arts, sciences, and education. About 95 percent of the students are Belizean students seeking Bachelor's and Master's degrees. The remainder are students participating in study abroad programs.
The University of North Dakota College of Arts and Science is the liberal arts and sciences unit of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The College of Arts and Sciences was established in 1883, and is the largest and oldest of nine colleges at the University, with over 200 regular faculty members in eighteen departments. The departments are organized into four divisions: fine arts, social sciences, humanities, and math-natural sciences. The college currently enrolls approximately 3,600 undergraduate students, about 34% of the University's total undergraduate enrollment.
The College of Education at Louisiana Tech University is one of the five colleges comprising Louisiana Tech University. The mission of the College traces back to the origins of Louisiana Tech in 1894, where the preparation of teachers was a mission of the institution. Today, the College of Education consists of three separate departments awarding thirty-five different academic degrees ranging from the baccalaureate to the doctoral levels.
Indian Institute of Fire Engineering, Nagpur is the first Government of Maharashtra recognized institute in India for advanced courses in fire safety engineering and security management studies. IIFE is registered under the Government Society Act 1860 and is recognised by Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education and Director of Technical Education , Mumbai.
Rawalpindi Medical University is a public university located in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. It is affiliated with three public sector teaching hospitals for undergraduate and postgraduate medical education & training. It is also listed among the recognised universities and degree awarding institutions by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.
The Foundation University Islamabad , is a public sector university located in Islamabad, Pakistan. It has two campuses; Foundation University School of Health Sciences & Foundation University School of Science and Technology .
Kettering College is a private Adventist college in Dayton, Ohio. The college is owned by the Kettering Medical Center and chartered by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The college was built in 1967 next to the Charles F. Kettering Memorial Hospital.
The College of Guadalupe de Zacatecas was a Roman Catholic Franciscan missionary college, or seminary , founded in Guadalupe, Zacatecas by the Order of Friars Minor between 1703 and 1707. The institution was established to provide specific training for priests who were to work among the indigenous populations in the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain, present day Mexico and the southwestern United States.
The European School of Political and Social Sciences is a non-profit private higher education institution located in Lille, France, and a member institution of Lille Catholic University, France's largest private university. Founded in 2012, ESPOL is dedicated to the study and research of political and social sciences, and awards state-recognized bachelors and master's.
The Irish College of Ophthalmologists or ICO is the recognised body for ophthalmology training in Ireland. Founded in 1991, it represents over 200 ophthalmologists in Ireland. Its current president is Dr Patricia Quinlan. Yvonne Delaney serves as Dean.
Federal College of Education, Kano is a college of art and Sciences based in Kano State. It was established by the Northern Region Government of Nigeria in collaboration with United States Agency for International Development in 1965 as Advance Training College Kano.
Pacific Western University was an unaccredited university that closed in May 2006 following a lawsuit filed by the State of Hawaii a year earlier. History Pacific Western University , Inc., also called American PacWest International University and registered under the business title Pacific West University was incorporated in Hawaii in 1988 and operated within the State of Hawaii until May 2006. The university was an unaccredited institution based in Hawaii, and was by far the largest of the three Pacific Western University schools offering degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. Mo...
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Dana College
Dana College was a private college in Blair, Nebraska. Its rural 150-acre campus is approximately 26 miles northwest of Omaha and overlooks a portion of the Missouri River Valley. The campus was planned to be purchased by Midland University, which expressed its intention to re-open the campus in 2015 or 2016, but dropped plans in early 2016.
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University of Huelva
The University of Huelva is a public university in Huelva, Spain. It was founded in 1993. The university offers undergraduate degrees, postgraduate degrees, and doctoral programs across a wide range of fields, including arts and humanities, engineering and technology, health sciences, natural sciences, and social sciences.
Penn State Abington is a commonwealth campus of the Pennsylvania State University located in Abington, Pennsylvania. The campus is set on of wooded land. The roughly 4000 undergraduate students are taught by a full-time staff of over 150 professors and teaching assistants.
Georgia College & State University is a public liberal arts university in Milledgeville, Georgia. The university enrolls approximately 7,000 students and is a member of the University System of Georgia and the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. Georgia College was designated Georgia's "Public Liberal Arts University" in 1996 by the Georgia Board of Regents.
The Tianjin University of Technology and Education is a public vocational university in Tianjin, China. The university is sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Tianjin Municipal People's Government.
The College of Southern Maryland is a public community college with campuses in Hughesville, La Plata, Leonardtown, and Prince Frederick, Maryland. It serves students living in Southern Maryland's Charles, St. Mary's, and Calvert counties.
University of Santo Tomas–General Santos City is a private, Catholic higher education institution in General Santos, Philippines. The UST General Santos is the first UST Campus in Visayas and Mindanao. It is an extension campus of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila.
The University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music, popularly known as "UST Music", is the music school of the University of Santo Tomas, the oldest and the largest Catholic university in Manila, Philippines.
The Universidad Intercontinental is a private Catholic University, located in Mexico City. Founded in 1976 by Guadalupe Missionaries and being one of the only six Mexican universities in the International Federation of Catholic Universities .
Ecumenical Christian Centre was founded in 1963 by M. A. Thomas. ECC is located in Whitefield in Bengaluru on a campus. Background The Ecumenical Christian Centre was established in 1963 by the late Rev. Dr. M. A. Thomas with the vision to promote "unity among all humankind and creation". ECC primary concern is to empower people from different faith communities to lead harmonious life with dignity. Dr. M A Thomas, founded ECC and built it as one of the internationally renowned resource centre, which caters to the need of people from all walks of life to engage in meaningful dialogues...
South Texas College is a public community college in the Rio Grande Valley region of South Texas. It is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award Bachelor of Applied Technology, Associate of Applied Science, Associate of Arts, and Associate of Science degrees. STC has an enrollment of approximately 31,000 students and a staff of 1,600 working across six campuses. It was created on September 1, 1993, with the passage of Texas Senate Bill 251, the purpose of which was to serve Hidalgo and Starr County.
The University of Kurdistan Hewlêr is an educational institution in Erbil/Hewlêr, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. UKH is a public university that was established in 2006. The University Of Kurdistan Hewler obtained top ranking throughout the Region in 2018.
